Maroussia Valero Kotowitch (1885-1955) - Frasquita, Gitane de Granada

- Oil on canvas. The daughter of two great opera figures of the late 19th century, the Spanish tenor Fernando Valero and the Odessa-born soprano Lajá Kotowitch, Maroussia Valero rebelled against her destiny by becoming one of the first artists to transcend the themes then considered acceptable. for a woman. A republican sympathizer, her oil paintings, of high quality and expressionist style, were exhibited in the main Madrid galleries and confirmed the importance and notoriety of her painting. During the Second Republic he alternated with painters and poets, founding with the wife of Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez, Zenobia Camprubí, the first interior design agency in Madrid. An interesting work due to one of the most notable characters of the first third of the 20th century in Spain.
- Maroussia's portrait is reproduced in the advertisement, as well as two photogravures of his paintings that appeared in the press on the occasion of his first artistic exhibition in Madrid, in the newspaper ABC.
- Dimensions of the image without frame: 65 x 92 cm / 77 x 104 cm with beautiful dark wood frame.
- Comes from a private collection in Barcelona.
- Good general condition. Minimal faults.
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